E F Koku
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5265 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E F Koku |
| NOMBRES | E F |
| APELLIDO | Koku |
| FIRMA | KOKU E F |
| AFILIACIONES | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3856-6651 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake Among African Immigrants
In 2021, the African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA) implemented a community-based vaccine education and outreach program to decrease hesitancy and increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among African immigrants in Philadelphia. The program had three components: (1) tailored messaging on the benefits of vaccines by trusted community health navigators in familiar languages/dialects, (2) use of educational/tabling events, and (3) establishment…
African Immigrants and the End of the HIV Epidemic in the United States
African immigrants in the United States are disproportionately affected by HIV yet remain overlooked in public health strategies such as the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative. Many reside in EHE-prioritized counties, but their categorization under the broad “Black/African American” label obscures their distinct pathways to HIV acquisition and barriers to care. We explore how African immigrants can be more effectively prioritized in the EHE…
Social networks and stigma
Increasing recognition of stigma as a driver of adverse health outcomes has spurred extensive research on the conceptualization, measurement, and refinement of stigma. Even though stigma is enacted in social relationships, few analysts have characterized how the structure and composition of these relationships influence stigma, particularly among immigrant populations. In response, we integrated data from social network analysis and in-depth inte…
The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV
This paper examines how African immigrants living with HIV negotiate and reconstruct their productive (i.e., educational and career opportunities), sexual, and reproductive identities. We used data from a mixed-methods study to explore how stigma and social networks in which participants were embedded shaped how they understood and negotiated their role expectations and responsibilities. Participants revealed how HIV not only changed their identi…
Predictors of Willingness to Diffuse PrEP Information within Ego-Centric Networks of Women Who Inject Drugs
Motivations for PrEP-Related Interpersonal Communication Among Women Who Inject Drugs
A qualitative egocentric social network approach was taken to explore motivations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-related communication between women who inject drugs and network members. Eligible participants were HIV-negative, 18 years or older, and participating in a PrEP demonstration project in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The study employed content analysis of in-depth interviews to identify themes related to contextual and relational factors…
Making American Friends
This study investigated the relationship between Chinese international students’ social networks in the United States and their musical tastes. Based on concept of homophily, this study used a self-reported Social Network Analysis (SNA) survey to examine whether sharing similar musical tastes affected Chinese international students’ relationship, their musical tastes, and music consumption. The results showed that having high musical taste simila…
The Effect of Social Networks and Social Constructions on HIV Risk Perceptions
Music listening and cultural adaptation
This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more Engli…
Explaining HIV Risk Multiplexity
HIV-Related Stigma among African Immigrants Living with HIV/Aids in USA
Recent advances in the fight against HIV have increased the life expectancy of those infected. Despite these, a number of barriers such as stigma continue to affect HIV prevention and treatment. Although the body of work on HIV stigma is growing, there is a paucity of literature on the experiences of specific sub-groups such as African immigrants living with HIV. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of these immigrants in the US, this stu…
Crimes of Globalization
This paper addresses the lack of criminological interest in the “crimes” of globalization. It challenges the essentialist assumption of mainstream criminology that the legal definitions of crime are sacrosanct. Following a broader conceptualization of crime which goes beyond the prescriptions of criminal law, the paper draws on three different intellectual traditions (crimes of globalization, structural violence and the critique of neoliberalism)…
Netting Scholars
Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance? To examine this question, the authors study scholarly and interpersonal relationships-in person and by e-mail-in two scholarly networks, one in a large university and one dispersed across North America. These scholarly networks are harbingers of the turn toward network and virtual organizations. Although the Internet helps scholars to maintain tie…
Netting Scholars
Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance? To examine this question, the authors study scholarly and interpersonal relationships-in person and by e-mail-in two scholarly networks, one in a large university and one dispersed across North America. These scholarly networks are harbingers of the turn toward network and virtual organizations. Although the Internet helps scholars to maintain tie…
Crimes of Globalization
This paper addresses the lack of criminological interest in the “crimes” of globalization. It challenges the essentialist assumption of mainstream criminology that the legal definitions of crime are sacrosanct. Following a broader conceptualization of crime which goes beyond the prescriptions of criminal law, the paper draws on three different intellectual traditions (crimes of globalization, structural violence and the critique of neoliberalism)…
Music listening and cultural adaptation
This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more Engli…
HIV-Related Stigma among African Immigrants Living with HIV/Aids in USA
Recent advances in the fight against HIV have increased the life expectancy of those infected. Despite these, a number of barriers such as stigma continue to affect HIV prevention and treatment. Although the body of work on HIV stigma is growing, there is a paucity of literature on the experiences of specific sub-groups such as African immigrants living with HIV. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of these immigrants in the US, this stu…
Motivations for PrEP-Related Interpersonal Communication Among Women Who Inject Drugs
A qualitative egocentric social network approach was taken to explore motivations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-related communication between women who inject drugs and network members. Eligible participants were HIV-negative, 18 years or older, and participating in a PrEP demonstration project in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The study employed content analysis of in-depth interviews to identify themes related to contextual and relational factors…
Netting Scholars
Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance? To examine this question, the authors study scholarly and interpersonal relationships-in person and by e-mail-in two scholarly networks, one in a large university and one dispersed across North America. These scholarly networks are harbingers of the turn toward network and virtual organizations. Although the Internet helps scholars to maintain tie…
Crimes of Globalization
This paper addresses the lack of criminological interest in the “crimes” of globalization. It challenges the essentialist assumption of mainstream criminology that the legal definitions of crime are sacrosanct. Following a broader conceptualization of crime which goes beyond the prescriptions of criminal law, the paper draws on three different intellectual traditions (crimes of globalization, structural violence and the critique of neoliberalism)…
HIV-Related Stigma among African Immigrants Living with HIV/Aids in USA
Recent advances in the fight against HIV have increased the life expectancy of those infected. Despite these, a number of barriers such as stigma continue to affect HIV prevention and treatment. Although the body of work on HIV stigma is growing, there is a paucity of literature on the experiences of specific sub-groups such as African immigrants living with HIV. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of these immigrants in the US, this stu…
Explaining HIV Risk Multiplexity
Making American Friends
This study investigated the relationship between Chinese international students’ social networks in the United States and their musical tastes. Based on concept of homophily, this study used a self-reported Social Network Analysis (SNA) survey to examine whether sharing similar musical tastes affected Chinese international students’ relationship, their musical tastes, and music consumption. The results showed that having high musical taste simila…
The Effect of Social Networks and Social Constructions on HIV Risk Perceptions
Music listening and cultural adaptation
This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more Engli…
Predictors of Willingness to Diffuse PrEP Information within Ego-Centric Networks of Women Who Inject Drugs
Motivations for PrEP-Related Interpersonal Communication Among Women Who Inject Drugs
A qualitative egocentric social network approach was taken to explore motivations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-related communication between women who inject drugs and network members. Eligible participants were HIV-negative, 18 years or older, and participating in a PrEP demonstration project in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The study employed content analysis of in-depth interviews to identify themes related to contextual and relational factors…
Social networks and stigma
Increasing recognition of stigma as a driver of adverse health outcomes has spurred extensive research on the conceptualization, measurement, and refinement of stigma. Even though stigma is enacted in social relationships, few analysts have characterized how the structure and composition of these relationships influence stigma, particularly among immigrant populations. In response, we integrated data from social network analysis and in-depth inte…
The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV
This paper examines how African immigrants living with HIV negotiate and reconstruct their productive (i.e., educational and career opportunities), sexual, and reproductive identities. We used data from a mixed-methods study to explore how stigma and social networks in which participants were embedded shaped how they understood and negotiated their role expectations and responsibilities. Participants revealed how HIV not only changed their identi…
Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake Among African Immigrants
In 2021, the African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA) implemented a community-based vaccine education and outreach program to decrease hesitancy and increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among African immigrants in Philadelphia. The program had three components: (1) tailored messaging on the benefits of vaccines by trusted community health navigators in familiar languages/dialects, (2) use of educational/tabling events, and (3) establishment…
African Immigrants and the End of the HIV Epidemic in the United States
African immigrants in the United States are disproportionately affected by HIV yet remain overlooked in public health strategies such as the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative. Many reside in EHE-prioritized counties, but their categorization under the broad “Black/African American” label obscures their distinct pathways to HIV acquisition and barriers to care. We explore how African immigrants can be more effectively prioritized in the EHE…
Medicine (9 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras)